stems decumbent, more or less clavate, 1–3 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick, obtusely 4-angled, with spreading teeth 1–1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, dull green or purplish tinted; teeth with a minute tooth on each side at the base of the ultimately marcescent tips; flowers 2–4 together at the middle or towards the top of the young stems, opening successively; pedicels 1–3 lin. long, stout, glabrous; sepals 1/4– 1/3 in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla in bud glabrous, ellipsoid, acuminate, 5-angled, when expanded about 1 in. in diam., glabrous outside and within, fringed at the base of the lobes with a few vibratile clavate dark purple hairs, outside pale greyish-green spotted and streaked with purplish-grey, inside brownish-red or rich brownish-crimson, more or less mottled with yellow, the intensity of colour varying even in flowers of the same cluster; tube 4–5 lin. long, and as much in diam., campanulate; lobes 4–5 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad at the base, deltoid-ovate, acuminate or very acute, recurved; corona-lobes about 2 1/2 lin. long, very stout, nearly square in transverse section at the lower adnate part, with subulate acute connivent-erect tips much exceeding the anthers, purplish on the back and at the apex, yellowish on the slightly concave sides below the middle. null
